[aquila48]

How Ya Gonna Keep'em in a burqa (After They've Seen Paree?

[blueplum]

Why? One word answer: Sharia

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, how do you keep women in a form of bondage in Saudi, after they have seen other cultures in which women are treated much more humanely???

If Saudi wants a “brain drain” of their best educated and qualified women, that is a societal choice that they make. And that choice hurts their society.

[hamboy]

Saudi cities are not so-called open cities like Cairo, Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. In Saudi Arabia there's so-called muṭawwi the islamist religious police who'd require women to cover their heads, alcohols are forbidden while in the open cities they are not, no muṭawwi to pound in women's head if they don't cover.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Saudi is a classic rentier state whose Wahabi fundamentalist system survives thanks to massive oil revenue. They should be thankful that they have survived this far. Without oil, they would be still a small band of backward tribes, clinging to their extreme belief.

[PCPOET7]

I personally think that the middle east is about 20 or 30 years away from having a radical change in there culture. it is this generation of women educated outside the middle east witch will cause a melt down in Islam. unfortunately we in the west have to wait for the effect of theses women on there culture because it will be the children of theses women that makes the changes. Islam depends upon a big uneducated population and will fall eventually because of this. unfortunately till then we have a region that will be violent to the rest of the world..

[cynwoody]

Saudi Arabia is Islam's money bags.

The author writes:

The total average annual sum spent by Saudi Arabia’s government on each female student is estimated to be between $35,000-45,000 a year. Looking at the figures released by the Ministry of Higher Education, which shows that women represent 26 percent of the number of students studying abroad, this means that Saudi Arabia has spent in excess of $50 million on women’s overseas education during the last 10 years.

So call it $40k per female student. That's $50m/$40k = 1250 students over ten years, or 125 per year. BFD (and I don't mean Boston Fire Department).

We screwed up the first Gulf War. Saddam should have been given a free pass to conquer Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, as long as oil remained cheap and no nukes were being developed. That should have been the deal. No boots on the ground! No coffins at Andrews!

But imagine videos of the Saudi religious police being fed thru wood chippers for defying Saddam!

[sphinx]

I believe this is the first time I have ever seen the words “Saudi Arabia” and “talent” in the same sentence.